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Browsing by Author "Adebayo, Bolanle"

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    Intercultural Mentoring in Higher Education
    Adebayo, Bolanle; Sunderman, Hannah M. (Wiley, 2023-11-27)
    Intercultural mentoring is increasing in higher education in response to diversification and globalization. While intercultural mentoring relationships experience unique challenges, it can be a development learning opportunity for both mentors and mentees. Therefore, the current article discusses the following aspects of intercultural mentoring relationships in higher education: benefits and challenges, recommendations for effective practice, the role of mentors and mentees in ensuring a successful relationship, and future research frontiers. Mentors and mentees in intercultural mentoring relationships, as well as formal mentoring programs with intercultural mentoring dyads, will benefit from the recommendations offered in the current article.
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    Summary Report on the Commonwealth Agriculture Summit
    Kaufman, Eric K.; Seibel, Megan M.; Tyler-Mackey, Crystal; Parrella, Jean; Adebayo, Bolanle; Olowoyo, Olamide; Poudel, Sonika; Spence, Jessica; Zhu, Stephanie (2024-06-10)
    On April 12, 2024, Virginia Cooperative Extension hosted the Commonwealth Agriculture Summit in Richmond VA, with approximately 100 individuals in attendance. The Summit focused on three goals: ➔ Define relevant innovations needed for local producers, ➔ Help producers maintain and grow their operations for positively impacting communities, and ➔ Identify priorities for the agriculture industry we can collectively support. The structure of the event was based on an “Un-Meeting” format, which prioritizes engaging and listening to participants to surface key insights. The structure included three panels (a.k.a., “ignite sessions”), with each key informant allocated four minutes to highlight predetermined areas of focus: (1) “Maintaining Agriculture’s Edge,” featuring Secretary Matt Lohr, Robert Mills, Dr. Kang Xia, and Dr. Joseph Oakes; (2) “Processing and Challenges for Growth,” featuring Jennifer Ligon, Eric Bendfeldt, Jim Saunders, and Melissa King; and (3) “Land Use,” featuring Rachel Henley, Adam Downing, Commissioner Joe Guthrie, Dr. John Fike, and Nadine Jackson. During each panel presentation, participants captured thoughts, questions, and comments on index cards, which were then organized into themes for deeper conversations in breakout discussions. By the end of the Summit, 17 key informants had sparked ideas that yielded 12 general themes, supported by more than 300 data points (i.e., participants’ submitted index cards). This report presents examples of input by thematic area, with brief summaries of the breakout discussions depicting both broad discussion topics and more specific suggestions for Extension research and practice. As participants departed, they were encouraged to continue conversations, helping Virginia maintain its standing as a pacesetter for advancing agriculture technology in ways that value and perpetuate a strong heritage. Innovation, defined in a way that contributes to locally relevant decision-making tools, allows Virginia Cooperative Extension to remain a relevant conduit of research-based, tangible information to stakeholders. Responding to community-based needs with practices, products, and related education and training is further enhanced through collaborative efforts with state and local agencies in executing the Land Grant mission.
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    Towards Enhancing Leadership Capacity of Women in Agriculture
    Olowoyo, Olamide; Adebayo, Bolanle; Sunderman, Hannah M.; Kaufman, Eric K. (2023-07-19)
    Increasingly complex societal problems require the collective efforts of all genders to solve. However, women seldom receive the social support necessary to develop leadership identity and capacity despite inherent leadership potential (Ely et al., 2011; Shollen, 2015). Leadership is instrumental in promoting community efforts (Igalla et al., 2020). Hence, women’s leadership capacity should be developed to encourage collective efforts to solve problems, especially in a sector where they are the majority of workers, such as agriculture. The agricultural sector is faced with diverse problems affecting the sector’s productivity. Women are needed to facilitate collective efforts toward solving agricultural problems. Hence, there is a need to increase efforts targeted at women’s leadership capacity development. This roundtable discussion will ask participants to share their views on the importance of developing women’s leadership capacity, the current state of women’s leadership capacity development, challenges to women’s leadership capacity development, and diverse methods for developing capacity through leadership education. Emerging scholars with research interests in women’s leadership development will facilitate the round table discussion. The overall goal of the discussion is to consider the methods through which women’s leadership capacity can be enhanced.